Later that year it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and spent many years parked at air bases exposed to the weather and souvenir hunters, before being disassembled and transported to the Smithsonian's storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, in 1961. It was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. Hancock, an archives technician at the National Archives at College Park, MD. The Enola Gay (/ n o l /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. The Enola Gay lurched as the the 10,000 pounds Mk I bomb. August 6, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was a B-29 bomber that is best known for dropping an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945.
After the war, the Enola Gay returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay landing after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki being bombed instead. Tibbets retired from the Air Force in 1966 and died in 2007, at 92. Sweeney and his Bocks Car crew dropped the second atomic bomb, 'Fat Man,' on Nagasaki. The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. With Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy, Gary Frank. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, 'Little Boy,' was dropped at 8:15 a.m. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb: Directed by David Lowell Rich. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.